---
title: Mupid 2
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- Austria
years:
- '1983'
cpus:
- Zilog Z80A
params:
  name: Mupid 2
  image: /media/museum/photos/mupid_mupid2_1s.jpg
  company: /companies/mupid
  company_name: MUPID
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: Mupid 2
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: Mupid
  - label: TYPE
    value: Home Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: Austria
  - label: YEAR
    value: '1983'
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: Basic
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: fullstroke keyboard, 77 keys with numeric keypad
  - label: CPU
    value: Zilog Z80A
  - label: SPEED
    value: 3 MHz
  - label: RAM
    value: 64 KB
  - label: VRAM
    value: 64 KB
  - label: ROM
    value: 16 KB
  - label: TEXT MODES
    value: 40 x 25
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: 240 x 320
  - label: COLORS
    value: 16 colors from a palette of 4096
  - label: SOUND
    value: 4 voices, built-in speaker
  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
    value: Unknown
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: SCART video/audio output,, 2 x joystick connectors (DIN6), Tape interface (DIN8), Modem (DB25), Serial connector (DB9), External disk drive connector(DIN8)
  - label: POWER SUPPLY
    value: Built-in PSU
  - label: PERIPHERALS
    value: External 5.25'' floppy drive unit
  - label: PRICE
    value: $7,900
  tabs:
  - photos
  - hardware
  - links
  photos:
  - title: MUPID C2A2 CLOSE-UP
    subtitle: ''
    text: '[Thomas Conté](http://www.pas.net)'
    image: /media/museum/photos/mupid2.jpg
  - title: MUPID C2A2
    subtitle: ''
    text: '[Thomas Conté](http://www.pas.net)'
    image: /media/museum/photos/mupid1.jpg
  - title: MUPID II
    subtitle: ''
    text: Thanks to Sveto Nilovic for this picture
    image: /media/museum/photos/mupid_mupid2_1.jpg
  hardware:
  - title: 5.25'' DOUBLE DISK DRIVE
    subtitle: ''
    text: Thanks to Sveto Nilovic for this picture
    image: /media/museum/hardware/mupid_mupid2_dd.jpg
  links:
  - title: much.iicm.tugraz.at/much/projects
    url: http://much.iicm.edu/projects/overview.htm/
    text: various Mupid content in this project pages, by the father of Mupid computers
  comments:
  - author: Gig Ahertz
    date: Saturday 6th August 2022
    text: Now you go and spoil it all by saying something mupid like I love you.
  - author: robcfg (Spain)
    date: Tuesday 28th April 2015
    text: |-
      Hi Petrisor,

      If you still have the Mupid, please write me to my name at gmail.com, thanks!
  - author: Petrisor Stoican (Romania)
    date: Tuesday 12th November 2013
    text: I have one of these at home, it still works I guess and it would be a shame if I''d throw it away. Well... if someone needs it, give me an email.
  - author: PeriSoft (New York)
    date: Wednesday 12th September 2007
    text: That's a pretty mupid name for a computer if you ask me.
  related:
  - /museum/mupid
  oc_id: 1119
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230605034559/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1119
    date: '2023-06-05'
---

The [Mupid](/museum/mupid/) was followed by the **Mupid 2** which had a better keyboard, and which supported the CEPT Prestel standard instead of the national Austrian one. At their time, the Austrian post office even replaces Mupid 1 by Mupid 2s for free (I wonder what they did with all these returned Mupid 1 models).

There were 3 Mupid 2 models:\
\- C2D (German version of the square tin case with separate keyboard) According to some rumor, these models did not went into sales.\
\- C2D2 (German version of the compact case labelled "Komfort MUPID")\
\- C2A2 (Austrian version of the compact case)\
\- In addition there was a Mupid card for early PCs.

Apart from the floppy disc drive, there was one additional option for the Mupid 2.

The so-called "Permanent Memory" upgraded a normal Mupid 2 to a "Komfort Mupid" (it seems that all German C2D2 models were Komfort Mupids). This option consists of a battery-buffered 128 KB CMOS memory that costed an enormous 420 Euro (currently about 650$). This memory allowed either:\
\- to store and reload existing Prestel pages without additional costs\
\- to store BASIC programs or graphics without other external memory\
\- to be used as a RAM disc (this even allowed to run CP/M without a floppy disc)

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**Contributors:** Fritz Hohl

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